With the contrasting need for feeding a global population and the increasing regulations on antibiotic use, the European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition  featured studies on an “energy-sparing” feed enzyme.  The 20th annual symposium, held last month, recognized Elanco Animal Health’s Hemicell, an enzyme that reduces Feed Induced Immune Response (FIIR).

“Elanco recognizes feed enzymes are vital to the world’s food supply chain and is investing in several segments, including poultry, swine, beef cattle and aquaculture – all of which benefit from better feed-conversion efficiency,” says Patrice LaFargue, D.V.M., Senior Director-Global Enzyme Business at Elanco. “Hemicell is the catalyst for advancing what enzymes can offer producers, consumers and everyone in between.”

You can find the studies from the European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition website.

“Advancing existing technology and creating new innovative production practices is the pathway to achieving future food security,” says Marco Antonio Martinez-Cummer, Ph.D., Global Poultry Nutrition Adviser at Elanco. “Many tools, like Hemicell, are already available, safe and proven to help operations fully utilize available nutrients to support animal health.”

While standard energy-releasing enzymes release nutrients in feed, Hemicell helps conserve, or spare, the nutrients that are otherwise unnecessarily wasted.